Press Releases: Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate

Heartland Institute Experts React to Credit Rating Downgrade

August 05, 2011
Michael J. New
Peter Ferrara
S.T. Karnick
Robert Genetski
Steve Stanek
Joe Cobb
John Skorburg

Standard & Poor’s, one of the major credit rating agencies in the United States, downgraded America’s rating from AAA to AA-plus, the first-ever downgrade of this country.

Assistant Secretary-Designate Wodder Is a Choice Conservatives Should Like

July 19, 2011

Eli Lehrer, vice president of Washington, DC operations for The Heartland Institute and national director of its Center on Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate

Heartland Institute Praises House Passage of NFIP Bill: “Good, but not perfect”

July 13, 2011

An executive in the Washington, DC office of The Heartland Institute praised the U.S. House of Representatives’ passage of The Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2011 (H.R. 1309).

Heartland Institute Opens Ohio Office

June 23, 2011
Tammy Nash

June 23, 2011 – COLUMBUS, OH – The Heartland Institute, a national think tank with offices in Chicago, Washington, DC, Tallahassee, Florida, and Austin, Texas, today announced the opening of a fifth office in Columbus, Ohio.

Alan B. Smith will head the new office and coordinate efforts to advance Heartland’s free-market agenda in the state. Smith, a former executive director of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), previously worked for the Ohio legislature. The office also will be part of Heartland’s Center for Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate (CFIRE).